UDP vs. TCP distribution [was: Re: [e2e] Can feedback be generated...]

[Alberto Cerpa]

On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Sean Doran wrote:
> | If that is the case, how is the content getting replicated to these
> | different continents? Do the traffic statistics over the transoceanic
> | links capture this replication or are these being beamed over satellite?
> 
> Some people (Yahoo, CNN, etc.) locate "european-flavour" servers in Europe,
> "cantonese-style" servers in Hong Kong, and so forth.   Some people use 
> Akamai and their competitors, which seem to be locating stuff in various
> places around the world.  Most content just comes from wherever it happens
> to be hosted, and often enough that's somewhere in California.  Works great.
> 

Do you have some measurements to back this up?  I would be really
interested to get any pointers to some data available confirming this.

Best regards,
-Al


> 	Sean.
>